It’s five months until SQLSaturday Orlando, have you thought about your speaking plans for October? We’d love to have you come talk to our attendees! We have 50+ slots we need to fill and we try to build a schedule with a wide assortment of topics and skill levels. Here are my unofficial (because I don’t […]
Read more "Come Speak at SQLSaturday Orlando on October 10, 2015"Beautiful weather for a SQLSaturday! Everything went well, as expected but always appreciated. Just a few notes on this one: They had one person dedicated to the donuts/coffee area, cleaning up empty boxes and helping point out which boxes had what kind. Nice service. Might be interesting to label the boxes to reduce the open/look/go […]
Read more "Notes From SQLSaturday Jacksonville #391"I’m looking over the new SQLSaturday site as a consumer for the first time, seeing a few things: I don’t see a place to find the preferred hotel? I found that useful in the past. I really, really wish seminar registration had been baked in. It’s still ad hoc. Seems like this should be top […]
Read more "Notes on the Updated SQLSaturday Web Site"I’m actually half way there as I write this, stopped to stretch and get something to drink, start thinking about what I want to think about during the event. What’s to think about? Here’s my list so far: Remember to meet 3 new people. Easy to forget to do this. Starting at the speaker party […]
Read more "Headed to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday"INETA is shutting down at the end of this year. I’ve only been involved in INETA a bit. I was invited to join in one of their meetings of group leaders in Orlando way back in 2005? 2007? Good meeting as I remember it. They gave us time to talk to each other and it […]
Read more "Thoughts on INETA Shutting Down At the End of 2015"I’ve been talking to Team Orlando recently about following the great example set by Code Camp Orlando for celebrating 10 annual events. Our first was in 2007. That is an impressive run. We’ve been lucky to be able to transition leadership of the event many times, from me to Jack Corbett to Karla Landrum to […]
Read more "Thinking Ahead to SQLSaturday Orlando 2016-Tenth Anniversary"That’s #9 as in ninth annual SQLSaturday Orlando, being held October 10th, 2015 at Seminole State College, and which is the 442nd event chartered since we started things back in 2007. I’m heading up volunteers this year and will write more on that soon, but I definitely hope to engage many of our local members […]
Read more "#9 is Alive!"Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea? ran on April 21, 2015 in the SQLServerCentral.com newsletter. Good editorials should provoke thought and discussion. I rate it as partially successful. I knew when I wrote it that the idea of coercing a password from someone was an edge case that’s easy to dismiss, but those […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?"Last week PASS deployed an update to the SQLSaturday web site and then had to take the site down for almost four days to fix security issues. You can read about the features and the issues in these posts from PASS: SQLSaturday Site Redesign: Better than Ever SQLSaturday Website Update SQLSaturday Website Update Timeline I […]
Read more "Thoughts On The SQLSaturday Upgrade & Security Issue"I’ll be headed a bit north of Orlando next month for SQLSaturday Jacksonville to present Turbocharge Your Career With a Learning Plan.
Read more "I’m Presenting at SQLSaturday Jacksonville on May 9th, 2015"
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